On Monday and Tuesday, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC each dedicated a segment to the self-described geopolitical consultant firm Eurasia Group’s annual release of its Top Risks for the coming year. Unsurprisingly, the list was dominated by anti-Trump fearmongering, ranging from his aversion to globalist organizations (first) to a cartoonish view of his presidency being one of creeping authoritarianism (second) to a second Trump administration cracking down on China (third).
Those were just the top three as fourth was fearmongering about Trump’s economic policies in fourth, “Russia still rogue” at five, a struggling Iran, the global economy struggling because U.S. vs. China tensions, artificial intelligence, “ungoverned spaces,” and Trump’s border plans to round out the top ten.
CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil explained the top risk was “a world in…
