Dyson suggested that Cosby's comments "betray classist, elitist viewpoints rooted in generational warfare". Modern art was banned as being decadent, bourgeois and elitist. Republicans assert that hereditary monarchy is unfair and elitist. He found the Yale community to be elitist and racist. Carl exists to satirize all that is vacuous, elitist and ridiculous about the media class. Under Stalin it became a pejorative term for elitist art. Critics considered the school elitist and unnecessarily luxurious. King argued that this was corrupt and kept the game highly elitist. The Democrats had always used equalitarianism as a way to attack the rich elitist Whigs. Some critics of Strauss have accused him of being elitist, illiberalist and anti-democratic. During the campaign, MacArthur sought to portray Kim as a D.C. elitist and outsider. The party also tends to oppose state support for cultural initiatives deemed provocative or elitist. Before becoming a devotee of elitist and anti-materialist Oswald Spengler, he briefly flirted with Marxism. Before his election, she criticized Barack Obama as "an elitist who worked with words". The use of the term is seen by some as elitist and boastful.