He said those things years ago because he wanted to get elected in a super-liberal Austin state House district. Every political candidate in the country adjusts their rhetoric to their audience.But what does he really believe? He wants to get elected so he's no longer parroting woke talking points.
Similarly, most Republicans in Congress don't actually like Trump but almost every single one of them pretends to in public because it's an auto-loss in the primary if they don't.