and every year after the "left" says "yeah? well that's the past but this time it really is true that [country] is abusing [color revolutionaries] and you're just a conspiracy theorist vermin. we're still the bestest root'nest toot'nest..." and so on.

Technically it's reductionist to have the position "anything the American government is bad, I support whoever they oppose" but it's not exactly wrong. I guess in recent times ISIS was actually bad but the CIA might have been funding them.