Who is hacking Tom Friedman’s sense of judgment?

“We have never taken seriously from the very beginning Russia hacked our election,” Friedman declared. “That was a 9/11-scale event. They attacked the core of our very democracy. That was a Pearl Harbor-scale event.”

Then, in a swift response to the many people wondering whether he could possibly be serious, Friedman doubled down on the comparison in his column later that day.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” he wrote, “we were attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, we were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, and we were attacked on Nov. 8, 2016.”

It would, of course, be insulting to suggest Friedman is unaware of the thousands of American lives lost in Pearl Harbor and on 9/11. In fact, he acknowledges the mass casualties in his column, clarifying, “that most recent attack didn’t involve a horrible loss of lives, but it was devastating in its own way.”

That makes his argument even stranger.

To justify the comparison between Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and Russian “election hacking,” Friedman simply writes, “Our entire intelligence community concluded that Russia hacked our election by deliberately breaking into Democratic National Committee computers and then drip-by-drip funneling embarrassing emails through WikiLeaks to undermine Clinton’s campaign.”

To be clear, it is wrong for anybody, especially conservatives, to dismiss the allegations against Russia. The problem is deeply serious. Whether or not you agree with his conclusions, Friedman’s frustrations over the lack of action are understandable.

Japan and al Qaeda “deliberately” flew planes into warships and buildings and murdered thousands of innocent Americans, but, sure Mr. Friedman, your thing sounds pretty “devastating” too.

Emily Jashinsky is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner.