One possibility is that there's nothing really preventing local communities' political leaders from adopting Modern-'Morality' themselves, but if there's hope, he seems to suggest it comes first from local politics.

The Danish fishing industry example is even a very clear case of a national policy V. local politics. I didn't read Dependent Rational Animals, but maybe more context can be provided.

I think the quotation about the "communitarian mistake" is a little odd. In "Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity", MacIntyre praises at least two communitarian -- in the sense the text seems to adopt -- policies (Danish and Brazilian), as well as a Wendell Berry's book, also a "communitarian" persp