Authored by Libby Krieger via Campus Reform,

A Princeton University history professor recently claimed that President Donald Trump is worse than an infamous 1960s segregationist.

Kevin M. Kruse, a Princeton history professor, recently wrote an op-ed for The New York Times, titled, “The Real Problem With Trump’s Rallies.” Kruse compared Trump to former Alabama Democrat Gov. George C. Wallace, who coined the phrase "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” and whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. branded “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America.”

“As governor, he embodied the cause of segregationist resistance,” Kruse writes about Wallace, describing the politician as “literally standing in the schoolhouse door to block the first black students at the University of Alabama and figuratively standing against what he called the ‘civil wrongs bill.’”

The professor outlines what he deems the similarities between Wallace and Trump.

“He’s claimed some of Mr. Wallace’s specific phrases as his own — most notably the call for ‘law and order’ — and more generally has stoked the same fires of resentment and racism,” he writes. “By articulating their audiences’ hatred, both men effectively encouraged them to act on it,” Kruse says, comparing violence at the two men’s rallies.

After Kruse compares Trump to Wallace, he points out a difference between them, stating that:

“it shows how Mr. Trump remains a greater danger and poses a graver threat to peaceful political discourse, especially as we enter a presidential election campaign.”

Kruse says that Trump “has used his rallies to single out specific enemies,” citing the president’s remarks about figures like Megyn Kelly during the 2016 election cycle, as well as his recent statements regarding Democrat Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.

Kruse, however, is not the first professor to take aim at the president.