I’ve had a theory about all of this for some time now—and I know it drives Democrats absolutely out of their minds, which is part of its charm. It exposes, with clinical precision, just how pathologically timid this party has become. A party of process-worshiping eunuchs, forever confusing caution with virtue.

The theory is simple.

After Merrick Garland empaneled the initial DOJ teams, they reached an unavoidable conclusion: the former president was guilty—spectacularly so. Multiple felonies. Obstruction. Espionage Act violations. Likely sedition. A criminal catalog so thick that, statistically speaking, some portion of it probably carried the death penalty.

At which point Garland stared into the abyss and panicked.

Prosecute a former president? One who might run again? The horror. The op-eds. The accusations of “weaponization.” The sacred norms trembling. This had never been done before, which to a certain species of bureaucrat is not a warning sign—but a veto.

So Garland did what timid men always do when faced with moral clarity: he outsourced responsibility.

“We’ll appoint a special prosecutor,” one imagines him saying, “and we’ll tell him nothing. Not our conclusions. Not our internal assessments. We’ll hand him the evidence, the memos, unlimited money, unlimited staff—and we’ll pretend we don’t already know the answer.”

Enter Jack Smith.

Now, make no mistake: DOJ already believed Trump was the most criminal public figure since Al Capone. They were confident they could indict him into geological time. They had spent nearly a year and a half reaching that conclusion.

But Democrat elites, being a uniquely gifted class of overeducated idiots, decided that certainty itself was suspect. So—back to square one. Again.

Smith does what serious prosecutors do. He dissects. He stress-tests. He red-teams the living hell out of the case. Another small fortune is burned as the most aggressive lawyers DOJ can muster re-verify every fact, every witness, every document. Every conceivable defense is simulated and crushed.

And Smith arrives—shockingly—at the same conclusion.

“Jesus Christ,” he likely mutters. “There are felonies everywhere. Why in God’s name wasn’t this charged already?”

By then, of course, the clock is nearly gone. Roughly three of the four remaining years to hold Trump accountable have evaporated in procedural self-soothing.

Smith moves quickly. Grand juries see the evidence and respond with appropriate enthusiasm.

“Holy hell. Indict this man immediately.”

So Trump is indicted. Not once. Not twice. Four times.

And now the machinery of federal criminal procedure lurches into motion—slow, formal, exquisitely vulnerable to sabotage.

Smith, correctly, says nothing. He speaks through filings. Through motions. Through the court.

And that’s when the carnival truly begins.

Alito. Thomas. The RV of unexplained generosity. And presiding over the wreckage, the single least-qualified jurist with a cereal box law degree: Judge Eileen Cannon.

So catastrophically incompetent that her own circuit—unanimously—effectively asks whether she is corrupt, incapacitated, or simply unfit for adult employment.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we got here.

Democrats cling to the fairy tale that the rule of law is self-executing. That justice naturally prevails. That institutions, left alone, will do the right thing.

This is not a children’s book.

Had Trump been indicted at the midterms, he would be in prison today. Period. No theory. No speculation.

Garland’s refusal to act on what was plainly in front of him is the single greatest act of political malpractice of our era. It is how Donald Trump became the 47th President of the United States.

Trump’s entire life is a masterclass in evading accountability. Pedophilia? Not my penis. Fraud? Everyone does it. Corruption? Perfect phone call.

And DOJ—confronted with the most documented criminality ever committed by a public official—blinked.

Trump should commission a statue of Merrick Garland for the South Lawn. Bronze would be appropriate. Maybe marble.

Merrick Garland is the reason Donald Trump could run again.

Full stop.