Communitarianism was originally a movement authored by sociologist Amitai Etzioni to counteract US society’s excessive deference to individual rights by supporting more traditional communal and moral values. It eventually strayed by eschewing religion and failing to take moral positions when facing divisive issues, such as abortion. Hillary Clinton, Donna Shalala and others hijacked the movement to furnish the ultimate authority their dying liberalism has failed to provide. They will fail because modern liberalism speaks only of the means to achieve community, instead of its ultimate transcendent ends.
