Nooo, dont fight the class war. Dont you know that the culture war is far more important. You need to spend all your time and energy fighting over the green M&M.
I don't think they've really changed, they still get their hands dirty and work to overthrow any leaders that might not be super open to US exploitation.
They seem to be go-fund-me'ing their coup attempts nowadays.
The only places the US is still having success is in the ME. They even lost their own hemisphere, they can't even prevent leftists from getting elected in Mexico anymore.
The recent US general election was, as usual, a face-off between the two predominant parties. The incumbent party, while nominally being the relative "left" party, continued the unbroken support the US has provided to Israel since its conception, despite recent genocidal activity. There are some who insisted that, while that support is reprehensible and isn't representative of the will of the left, the alternative party would be just as bad for Palestine while also being worse by most other metrics (including LGBTQ+ rights).
There are some who suggest that those insisting such a thing are shills or intelligence agents, logging into niche leftist spaces to manufacture tepid consent, rather than individuals expressing genuine concerns.