You made a good analysis, but WI people have been apologizing for Joe McCarthy for a half century plus. Even when Joe was found to have been right, WI still considers him anathema!
This election has come down to these facts. If you support closing borders to illegal immigrants and enforcement of existing immigration laws of deportation...you align more with Trump. If you are for Executive Amnesty after strengthening the border, you align more with Cruz. If you are for Open borders and the North American Union , you align more with the GOPe, and both Hillary and Bernie