摘要：美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马称特朗普政府针对学生、记者和律师事务所的文化与意识形态战争“深感担忧”。前副总统哈里斯称特朗普政府的政策正在导致恐惧情绪正在美国全国蔓延。他们的评论符合美国的现实吗？

前总统巴拉克·奥巴马表示，他对唐纳德·特朗普总统及其政府采取的一些行动“深感担忧”，并且指责共和党没有对这些行动进行抵制。

奥巴马在批评联邦政府威胁那些行使言论自由权的大学和学生、针对律师事务所的行为以及对外国实施的新关税。

奥巴马在纽约汉密尔顿学院发表讲话时说：“我认为我们刚刚看到的在经济政策和关税方面的举措对美国不会有好处，我更深感担忧的是，一个联邦政府竟然威胁大学，如果大学不交出那些正在行使言论自由权利的学生，就停止向大学拨付联邦补助和科研经费。”

奥巴马表示，他更感到忧虑的是，白宫将矛头指向那些代表与执政者持不同意的观点或政党的律师事务所，而且还惩罚那些坚持独立见解的媒体机构。

此前，特朗普签署行政命令惩罚那些代表与政府持不同政见的机构和个人状告政府或受到政府政策与行动迫害的大型律师事务所及其律师，引发了法律界的愤怒。白宫还因美联社及其媒体拒绝将墨西哥湾称为“美国湾”或发表批评政府政策的文章与言论的媒体，不允许他们参加白宫的新闻发布会，将这些媒体在五角大楼的办公室转给亲政府的媒体等措施。

奥巴马说：“这种行为与我们作为美国人所拥有的基本契约相悖。”他暗示，如果他在担任总统期间做出类似的事情，共和党人肯定会感到怒不可遏。

他说：“想象一下，如果我取消了福克斯新闻加入在白宫的记者团的资格。难以想象现在保持沉默的那些政党会容忍我或我的很多前任总统做出那样的行为。”

奥巴马表示：“我这样说并非出于党派立场。这关乎更宝贵的东西，那就是我们作为一个国家是什么样的，以及我们代表着什么价值观？”

他在演讲中的最后一个信息是，“历史会曲折发展，会有冲突的时候，会有愚蠢的时候，也会有危险的时候”，但他希望人们保持坚韧。他说：“不要气馁。我知道现在有点疯狂，但我们会没事的。”

与奥巴马相比，前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯周四在加利福尼亚州举行的“杰出女性定义峰会”上公开反对特朗普政府政策的讲话就不像奥巴马那样客气。她说，这个国家正在目睹“进步被逆转”，“恐惧情绪”在全国蔓延的进程。

哈里斯说：“我们看到有些人正在向明显违宪的威胁屈服。在过去几个月里，我们每天都在我们的国家目睹这些事情。可以理解，这引发了极大的恐惧感。”她说，“恐惧是会传染的”，但“勇气同样也会传染”。

Former President Barack Obama said he is "deeply concerned" with some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call out the Republican Party for not pushing back on them.

Obama rebuked Trump without explicitly naming him over the federal government's threats against universities and students who exercise free speech, its targeting of law firms, and the new tariffs imposed on foreign countries.

"I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that’s a specific policy," Obama said in his remarks at Hamilton College in New York. "I’m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech," he said.

Obama said he's more troubled by a White House that takes aim at law firms that represent ideas or parties that its occupants disagree with, and that the administration has punished media outlets. Trump has signed executive orders penalizing major law firms and lawyers, prompting outrage within the legal community. The White House has also barred The Associated Press from coverage over its refusal to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

"That kind of behavior is contrary to the basic compact we have as Americans," he said.

Obama suggested that Republicans would be outraged if he had done similar things as president.

"Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps," he said, adding, “It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me or a whole bunch of my predecessors."

He added, "I say this not on a partisan basis. This has to do with something more precious, which is who are we as a country and what values do we stand for?"

His final message during his speech was that "history zigs and zags and there are times of conflict and there are times of stupidity and there are times of danger," but he wants people to remain resilient.

"Don’t get discouraged," he said. "I know it’s a little crazy right now, but we’re going to be OK."

Former Vice President Kamala Harris also spoke out against the Trump administration at the Leading Women Defined Summit in California on Thursday. She said that the country is witnessing "progress being rolled back" and a "sense of fear" taking hold nationwide.

"We are seeing those who are capitulating to clearly unconstitutional threats," she said. "And these are the things that we are witnessing each day in these last few months in our country. And it understandably creates a great sense of fear."

Harris, who has kept a low profile since losing to Trump in November's presidential election, said that "fear has a way of being contagious" but that "courage is also contagious."

The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment about their remarks.

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