They will fight back with what they have as they always have.
The peoblem as I see it and believe the facts support, is that people want a fairy to wave a wand and POOF! the problem goes away with no skin off their backs. It doesn’t work that way. Never has.
So they will delay and deny doing what needs doing until the pain becomes too much to bear. Then, as always it’s a nuclear explosion and all bets are off. It’s the story of most war and revolution.
And this is difficult to arrange in NY City because, why?