The US left is generally anti-Assad, both due to his atrocities and the perception that the Russian government is propping him up. There is a wing of the left w

The US left is generally anti-Assad, both due to his atrocities and the perception that the Russian government is propping him up. There is a wing of the left who support him due to a belief that the US are trying to destabilize his regime and install a puppet by funding violent rebel groups. They're not exactly wrong, but they're blinded by ideology and in some cases conspiracy theory thinking like the chemical attacks being fake or his atrocities all being US propaganda. I would say this is only a small minority on the left, though. Most of the left hates Assad and his regime. The right at the moment seem to be more sympathetic to him.