He's a nut-job because he espouses positions that make him unelectable, if he wasn't already because he hasn't held office in thirty years.
The administration does the business of the country. To run it, you have to understand not only what needs to be done, but how to get it done given the system we have in place to do it. That's "getting the bread sliced." If it doesn't happen, we have to tear it all off in hunks, and it's kinda hard to get the peanut butter to spread evenly on hunks, know what I mean?