None of this is to say that there was not some segment of the Republican Party that was receptive to [Trump's] message. Some conservatives said they were willing to forgive his past abortion rights position after he declared he was now antiabortion. “Where you were in the past no longer matters, it only matters where you are today,” said Mr. Trump’s informal political adviser, Roger Stone.
He's right! Because if Republican rubes like the New Hampshire voter quoted in the last paragraph of the article didn't believe that very thing, Stone wouldn't have a career.