Why would you expect them not to be? It's a big power shift no matter how you stand on it philosophically. They're probably not reacting much differently from a

Why would you expect them not to be? It's a big power shift no matter how you stand on it philosophically. They're probably not reacting much differently from any other entity in history that has had a certain amount of power, and has been forced by some entity with even more heft to give a chunk of it up.