The French are still fighting for the US democracy.
Joe Biden ends re-election campaign - Blåhaj Lemmy
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/9786314
The French may not have the first democracy, may not have the best democracy, but they have had to fight harder than most for their democracy.
- paraphrasing from an audio tour by Rick Steves, I think.
Edit: oops, i flipped words in the title