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NY Times advice column ponders appropriateness of fleeing the country if 'wrong candidate' gets elected

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The New York Times Magazine's Ethicist columnist answered a reader's question about whether it is appropriate to leave the country if the "wrong" candidate becomes president.

Columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah compared it to the G.K. Chesterton complaint that to say "my country, right or wrong," was like saying "my mother, drunk or sober" Appiah said he didn't share the reader's concern that the U.S. was on the brink of authoritarianism as he grew up under civilian and military dictatorships.

Last month , Trump 's former attorney Michael Cohen said he would leave the U.S. in the event of a second term for fear of political retaliation.

Cohen was asked, "What do you think happens to you if he wins?" "Well, I'm out of here," Cohen said. "And it doesn't look like the migrant traffic is going back.".