Why isn't Communitarianism more popular as an ideology?

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Answer = It isn't an ideology or anything with any real intellectual or media substance and has no tradition whatsoever.

What it is (under the defintion used here), is a series of separate political positions which hardly connect to each other at all but may be popular when thought about in isolation.

You've just described the ideology of practically every US political party throughout its history save the Socialists (and the Harry Browne Libertarians)