There's a lot of speculation about why the charges were dropped, but as of today, nobody really has a good explanation. Regardless, it seems like it was a blatant act of political corruption. However, it's not clear why any politician with sufficient pull to get Smollett's charges dropped would take a fairly substantial risk to intervene on behalf of a rando "C" list celebrity.
There are many people who make a living off identity politics. It's been useful for many decades for US political parties to divvie up black and white people and to pander to black people. In recent years, they've taken that game to a whole 'nother level, and have sucked countless people of all races into a shared hallucination of ethnic identity. I think it's plausible that Smollett staged his hoax as part of the larger divide and conquer agenda, but he was just really bad at it. The weird circumstances of the dropped charges help advance that agenda, too.
People who base their lives on ethnic, racial, gender identity live in a low consciousness delusion of oppression and are really cut off from a fundamental, primal experiences of reality. White identitarians have a fuzzy anachronistic notion of "traditionalism", minus the millennia of brutal inter-european ethnic warfare (See Trad Trap) and black identitarians now have a comic book imagining of the black people Wakanda paradise, which seemingly preserves the perennial inter-african ethnic warfare.
In United States politics, the high ground of basic human dignity and a universal struggle of human kind seems very easy to capture. The people who buy into identity politics really diminish themselves and their "side", yet they persist.
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