You can have him as someone you believe must survive; he is their socialist sovereign by right of birth. He did assist al Qaeda in make it's way to fight Americans in Iraq for many years, which makes him beyond the redemption of Putin's propaganda for me. I don't believe his survival will last without Putin's gun thugs. When ISIS center of gravity is destroyed, and Assad keeps dropping barrel bombs on market places, you can claim he's killing ISIS, like so many here do.
Assad’s survival is probably what most Syrians want.
I suspect most Trump supporters do not want more of the Bush/Obama/HRC/neocon ME foreign policy - the one that nurtured ISIS. I could be wrong.