They want liberty from the virus, but there is no one to lead them.

It's not so hard to figure out why trump and his supporters are suddenly pushing to open up America. It just happens to coincide with all these new studies saying that blacks and other minorities are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus. 

Remember when that wasn't the case? We were quick to shut everything down, weren't we? Not any more. Now, trump supporters are taking to the streets and demanding that we open things up. Their "Dear Leader" is telling governors of states who care about the well being of their citizens to free them and let them go back to normal activities and infect themselves and the rest of us. (What's with all the  guns? Are they going to shoot the virus?) As Rick Wilson said, the man would literally start a civil war to cover up his immense failures when it comes to the handling of this epidemic. 

At a time when the country needs leadership, the president sits on twitter all day and attacks his political opponents and every perceived enemy both real and imagined. It's a rather sad and pathetic spectacle, and I suspect that it's having a very negative effect on the country's psyche.

When he (trump) is on television doing his nightly propaganda and campaign rally style briefings, he is blaming everyone but himself for this terrible state of affairs. It's the Chinese fault, it's Obama's fault, it's the W.H.O.'s fault, it's young people's fault, it's the governor's fault, it's the media's fault, and on and on it goes. It's everyone's fault but his own. This is not leadership.

Sarada Peri writing for The Atlantic sums things up perfectly:

"Between the 2016 campaign and now, Trump has gone from “I alone can fix it” to “I don’t take any responsibility at all.” Both those statements reveal Trump’s profound misapprehension of what the presidency is all about. It is not a dictatorship—however benevolent—that can single-handedly solve people’s problems in exchange for fealty. Nor is it a figurehead atop a loose coalition of competing states. It is a position that wields hard and soft power on behalf of the American people—and it must be held by someone who understands that in a global crisis, everyone, including markets and states and ordinary citizens, relies on the federal government to guide a response. If the conductor doesn’t raise her baton, the orchestra slides into chaos.

Laying out a strategy, using federal authority to align the private sector’s capability with the public’s needs, guiding state responses, publishing reliable data and information, setting a tone both measured and optimistic—that is the president’s job. Despite the purported breakdown of the liberal international order, the world still sheepishly glances in our direction, hoping that a steady hand might convene the alliances that exist precisely to grapple with, say, a global pandemic."

Trump is no conductor of an orchestra, he is more like the captain of the Titanic. His minions and the sycophants in his party are the orchestra, and they will just keep playing while the ship goes down.