The chaos that stems from absence of leadership suits the Chaos Monkey President. Like all grifter/carnival barkers, he despises his customers (marks), whose only option in the absence of information, support, structure, is YOLO, and who will therefore ultimately suffer the most, while continuing to turn to him for his cynical false messaging and identification of an Other to blame for any misfortune.
Those who are not under his spell are beaten into apathy by the sheer unrelenting awfulness and the absence of an alternative national strategy other than "vote in November."
Even states/regions (like mine, NY) where there is less insulation for incompetent or malignant leadership than at the national level and that are finally proceeding rationally and relatively transparently nevertheless failed to act quickly enough at the start, and continue to be presented with grotesque and criminal obstacles by the national government.
It is an appalling state of insanity that we are in, that's for sure.