Bill “The Butcher” Cutting—Daniel Day-Lewis’s one-eyed, knife-wielding villain in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York —shares Trump border czar Tom Homan’s nativism and ruthless take on American nationalism. Both believe that the United States belongs to certain people and, more importantly, that it should be closed to undesirable groups. Both are more than happy to destroy the country they profess to love so others can’t lay claim to it. Unlike Homan, Bill the Butcher is charismatic, complex,