Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, said Americans should expect to see a “new golden age” of the nation under former and president-elect Donald Trump during his incoming second term in the White House.
Phillips explained how Trump’s MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement is essentially an embracement of the late 2000’s and early 2010’s Tea Party movement which advocated for three core values: free markets, fiscal responsibility, and constitutionally limited government.
“The Tea Party Movement effectively lasted until about 2014 or 2015 and then Donald Trump in 2015 came down that escalator and launched the MAGA movement, which essentially took over where the Tea Party movement had left off, and that’s what we have today,” Phillips explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“The movement brought in a bunch of people who realized that the policies of the left are a disaster for everybody and that we don’t want to be socialists,” Phillips added.
Phillips pointed specifically to Trump’s idea of moving the U.S. away from an income tax by pushing policies including no taxes on overtime and no taxes on tips.
“That would be the greatest blow for liberty in the last hundred years, if we could get away from an income tax and use some other revenue basis to fund government,” Phillips said.
“One of the most exciting things about Trump’s position on taxes moving towards tariffs and away from income taxes…is that we can finally embrace that core value of not only limited government, but fiscal responsibility by literally strangling the government in its crib. Throwing out a lot of functions that don’t belong in government and making government the size it should be,” Phillips added.
In addition to tax cuts, Phillips also mentioned Trump’s plans to cut regulation and get government out of peoples’ personal lives and corporate lives as the president-elect’s gateway into “a new golden age of America.”
“Donald Trump has got four years to, for lack of a better term, work his magic…And when I say he’s got four years, he’s got four years in office. The Republicans should hold the Senate in 2026, so we should have four years of Republican control of the Senate, and hopefully we can keep the House, so he has control to be able to do the things that would usher in this golden age of America,” Phillips said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Judson Phillips” by Judson Phillips and “Trump Rally” by Gage Skidmore CC2.0.
