Wendy Weiser, director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, linked the efforts in Wisconsin and Michigan to the eroding political norms seen across the Trump administration and beyond.
The National Association of Evangelicals, the same group that condemned torture, even linked the efforts of evangelical "prayer warriors" to the killing of Saddam Hussein's sons.
By Sunday, Mr. Erdogan sought to thoroughly delegitimize any opposition to his governance, linking the effort to save the park to a recent terrorist attack in Reyhanli, in southern Turkey, which was connected to the Syrian civil war and killed dozens.
McConnell Urges Party to Fight Health Law Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky urged his party to keep up its fight against President Obama's signature health care law and ignore naysayers during a muscular speech here on Friday linking the effort to his party's salvation.
Economic downturn seemed to have brought about the end of manned spaceflight in America and by extension, this country's greatest science experiment — an endeavor that framed science in mythical terms, linking the efforts of Mission Control nerds in short-sleeved dress shirts to a tradition of exploration and cowboyish adventure.
Twitter said that 418 accounts had been removed before the election last November but was unable to link the efforts to the Internet Research Agency.
Republicans also quickly linked the failed effort to Friday's jobs report, which showed the unemployment rate ticking up to 9.8percentt in September.
Dr. Dean linked the recall effort here to the Supreme Court decision that ratified Mr. Bush's election win in Florida in 2000 and to legislative attempts by Republicans to redistrict Democratic representatives out of seats in Colorado and Texas.
It is lobbying Washington for a tax amnesty on overseas earnings, and the chief executive, John T. Chambers, has linked that effort to the size of the dividend.
