hts are bloodthirsty terrorists opposed by 80-90% of the syrian public, which fully backs assad and vehemently opposes jihadist rule. hts is also a proxy of the turkish government.
for the turks to arm and train these barbarians and send them into syria like a mercenary group in order to invade and pacify, and then absurdly claim that assad is oppressing his own people, when the truth is that the russians then have to come in to protect the population from the turkish-backed terrorists, is outrageous, but it is the level of propaganda being spewed by western media around this war for years, now.
i don't know if trump is going to actually shift direction here or not. i strongly doubt he understand the subtleties or what nominating gabbard actually means; he's just rewarding a loyalist. however, the entity that is at war with his own people is not assad, it's erdogan, and the country that's in need of regime change, by a coup if necessary, is the turks.
as mentioned, it would be nice if this turkish mercenary group could remove hezbollah from syria, first. i would just get out of their way and clean up the mess after. the west, however, should be looking at the long run, and it is more leaders like assad that want a western style democracy and want to tilt westwards, not less.
syria is more like lebanon than iraq, but it's somewhere in between. they don't want to be ruled out of the back of a koran by islamic thugs, they want something broadly european in government, and the only party offering that is assad. that is why assad, despite his failings, commands massive levels of popular support in syria.