In response to “American Patriot” Terry Blair’s letter to the editor on May 28, I am reminded of Samuel Johnson’s statement, 250 years ago, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.”

His list of concerns could use citations since, to me, they ring of paranoid propaganda. Illegal immigrants get “better care than us”? Fentanyl overdoses are because of “transgender mental illness”? Vulnerable women are being abused by illegal aliens (but not by American Caucasians)?

The “lies, corruption, fraud, cover-ups, abuse” are not happening under this administration? We shouldn’t be spending tax dollars to help defend Ukraine, a democracy invaded by Russia?

He will not be convinced of his skewed world view by a letter to the editor, but I would caution him with another quote, this from Jesus (Matthew 7:22-23) — “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And I will profess unto them, I never knew you.”

Thomas Learmonth

Monkton