Most people who talk about Strauss have never read him. They mention him only because they hate some of his former students.
True. People who attack Strauss from the left characterize him as an ultraconservative arch-reactionary. Those who attack him from the right see him as a liberal in conservative clothing. And both groups portray him as and imperialist warmonger. But all this assumes that Leo Strauss was a lot more influential in day-to-day party-level or movement-level politics, rather than in political philosophy or the history of political thought.