https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3v856g/how_would_you_classify_governor_huey_longs/

This post does a pretty good job of explaining his history but I can't at all see how the man described by that post came to be called a fascist. If anything, he seems quite the opposite. Am I misunderstanding what "fascist" is supposed to mean in this context?