If the key output of a political figure is to promote policies with conservative valence, what's the difference? Maybe at home he thinks to himself "progressive

If the key output of a political figure is to promote policies with conservative valence, what's the difference? Maybe at home he thinks to himself "progressive taxation systems are great" and "subsidizing solar energy is good." Good for him if true. But the thing I care about is how people like him impact society and his impact is to promote weird antivax shit that has completely smitten the reactionary right.