For the last year and a half, many American liberals and progressives have been fretting the rise of fascism in America. Left-of-center commentators from Michael Kinsley to Paul Krugman have openly called Donald Trump a fascist, the gifted and accomplished Harvard historian Timothy Snyder has written not one but two books on the reemergence of fascism in the United States and Europe, and of course Sinclair Lewis’s satirical It Can’t Happen Here has had an enormous boost in sales.

Now it’s Madeleine Albright’s turn. This month she published a new book, Fascism: A Warning, in which the former secretary of state surveys various global political crises and suggests some reasons for the rise of authoritarianism. We leave to one side the merits of her claim that Trump’s ascendency is a kind of fascist renaissance. What we heartily object to, however, is Albright’s tendency—and the tendency of her left-liberal allies—to denounce “fascism” and “authoritarianism” without noting its constant companion: socialism.