“That just creates a dissonance between the top of the ticket and where a lot of Republicans are on the state level,” said Stuart Stevens, who helped lead Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign and is opposed to Trump.

Trump has barely weighed in on many issues important to religious conservatives and has often modified his positions when he has — issuing an array of evolving remarks on abortion, transgender rights and other topics.

The dynamic could affect the presidential campaign in unpredictable ways. Will Trump move further to the right on divisive social issues to please evangelicals, making his path to victory more difficult in the general election? Or will he alienate social conservatives by taking more moderate positions — or even just by shrugging the issues off — potentially depressing turnout in November?…

“Really, what we have now at the presidential level is two sexual revolutionary parties,” Moore said. “And that’s one of the reasons why there’s a great deal of demoralization among social conservatives right now.”