A Tale of Two Countries: The Absurdity of the Notre Dame Backlash

Brigette Schoenung
6 min readApr 18, 2019

In the race to see which country not only founded the modern ideal of democracy, but has also been the best guardian of it, my team is losing.

On Monday, the French showed us just how easy it is to raise enormous amounts of money to help others, almost instantaneously, if your entire nation is determined to come together to do the right thing. And we hated them for it.

Thanks to Jenna Day of Upsplash

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