The only problem I have with this theory is just how low-IQ the execution was. Even if it was part of a broader psyop, the staging of the attack itself smacks of Smollett improvising.
If the Dems were organizing it, they would have had Rahm get a couple of Mossad types who were at least passably white to do it. Instead Smollett hires a couple of his Nigerian butt buddies, of all people…