Although often denounced as a fascist by some of his contemporaries, a number of modern historians have disagreed with these assessments. Long was not anti-Semitic, nor any more anti-Communist than most politicians at the time. When asked about common comparisons between him and Adolf Hitler, Long replied "Don't compare with that so-and-so. Anybody that lets his public policies be mixed up with religious prejudice is a plain God-damned fool." and later commented "I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards."Williams (1981) [1969], p. 761. Several of Long's political and personal friends were Jews, such as Abraham Shushan and Seymour Weiss. Additionally, Long didn't espouse any anti-democratic ideology and had no conception of a corporate state. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. noted that "Long's political fantasies had no tensions, no conflicts, except of the most banal kind, no heroism or sacrifice, no compelling myths of class or race or nation."
