A new feature- Ask the Expert: 5 questions Brian Talbert can't answer.

One of the more remarkable things about gay Trump fanboys is how unmoored from cultural literacy they are.

Of course, when you live on memes devised by others who are smarter than you even when they are knowingly misleading, life is so easy there is not much incentive to actually know anything.

North Carolina's rural GTF club seem happy to prove, several times daily, that ignorance is bliss.

So here's some recent spew as an example:

Apparently, from the hashtag, the local group's minister of propaganda, Brian Talbert, thinks public school teachers are the same as college and university professors. He apparently has no direct experience of the latter.

But he always knows what is right, because he cuts and pastes it from dubious websites and calls anyone who challenges him names.

So let's ask him to school us:

1. How is editing the Declaration of Independence as a vehicle for thought bad? Explain how it is in any way enforceable anywhere, in or out of that classroom. Has anyone else ever done it (besides H.L. Mencken in 1921, or Stan Freberg in 1961, or Daniel Drezner's Trump version this year)?

2. How is this classroom exercise not an exercise in freedom of speech, one of the big things the Declaration is about?

3. With reference to Marx's Das Kapital, how, precisely, is this school project an exercise in Marxism? There are many annotated editions and commentaries so you will have no trouble providing specific references.

4. Did you read the article you reposted far enough- or at all- to notice that the green-haired mouthbreather is not the teacher, but the mother seeking attention in this farcical fuss?

5. Bonus Points: where has Marxism ever succeeded? In China, Cuba and North Korea it is simply a gloss on a dictatorship. It failed everywhere else it was tried. Give specific examples of how you believe it is taking over America.