Literally anything.
They wouldn't be in power right now if people hadn't sat back and let it happen. *THEY'RE LITERALLY BREAKING LAWS TO GET HERE!!!*
If people hadn't, as a whole, just sat back and watched it, it never would have gotten this far in the first place.
People could have demanded their representatives do something. They could have held emergency sessions to remove representatives who wouldn't. I don't think it even would have gotten *THAT* far though...