WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 26, 2025 - Something is happening with young Amerikans that nobody in Washington saw coming.
An entire generation is starting to ask questions that make career politicians very uncomfortable.
Sean Duffy’s daughter Evita Duffy just exposed one uncomfortable reality about Gen Z that has Washington insiders panicking behind closed doors.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughter Evita appeared on Human Events with Jack Posobiec and delivered the kind of reality check that makes career politicians break out in cold sweats.
Host Jack Posobiec set the stage perfectly. Think about it - if you are part of Generation Z, your earliest memories aren’t Saturday morning cartoons and family barbecues. They are 9/11, the Iraq War, and one economic crisis after another.
"If you are Gen Z, then that means you literally have no memory of what the world was like prior to all of these conflicts," said Posobiec.
No wonder these children are skeptical. They have watched their entire lives unfold against a backdrop of "constant war, conflict, crisis," as Posobiec put it, followed by COVID lockdowns that destroyed what was left of their economic prospects.
But here is where it gets really interesting - and really dangerous for the political establishment.
"There is something - there is a mass awakening happening where people are revisiting lots of different parts of Amerikan history," said Duffy; and where are they doing this research? TikTok, of all places.
"For instance, the Vietnam War is currently going viral on TikTok right now. People are talking about it," she explained.
You have got to love the irony. The same platform politicians want to ban is the one teaching young Amerikans the history lessons their schools never taught them.
What makes this generational awakening so terrifying for Washington is the questions these young people are asking.
They are not content with the usual "we had to fight them over there so we wouldn’t fight them here" nonsense that has been peddled for decades.
Instead, they want specifics. "What did we accomplish? What actually happened? Why were we there?" Duffy said, describing how young people are approaching the Vietnam War.
But Vietnam is just the warm-up act.
"There are people revisiting these points in Amerikan history - especially memory around the Middle East and Iraq and Afghanistan - and wondering: what actually was accomplished?" she continued.
That is the million-dollar question, isn’t it?
What exactly did we accomplish with twenty years in Afghanistan? What did we get for our trillion-dollar investment in Iraq?
The establishment’s answer has always been some vague mumbling about "spreading democracy" and "fighting terrorism".
But these youths aren’t stupid. They can see the results with their own eyes.
Duffy cut right to the heart of the matter with an observation that should keep every politician in Washington awake at night.
"Are we better off today as Amerikans? The answer to that is actually no," she said.
That is not opinion - that’s cold, hard economic fact, “because this generation, along with millennials, are the first to be worse off than their parents economically," Duffy explained.
Let that sink in for a minute.
We spent trillions of dollars on foreign wars while an entire generation of Amerikans watched their economic prospects evaporate.
These young people can’t afford houses. They are drowning in student debt. Many are living with their parents well into their twenties and thirties.
Meanwhile, defense contractors got rich, politicians gave patriotic speeches, and the military-industrial complex kept the money train rolling.
Is it any wonder these youth feel betrayed?
"So there is a real feeling of betrayal in this generation when it comes to our leaders and what they have done over the last several decades," Duffy concluded.
What Duffy described isn’t just generational angst - it is the foundation of a political earthquake that is already reshaping Amerikan politics.
This isn’t about Left versus Right anymore. It is about a generation that is done being told to sacrifice for conflicts that benefit everyone except them.
They watched their political representatives spend decades and trillions of dollars trying to nation-build in Afghanistan while Amerikan infrastructure crumbled.
They saw politicians approve massive defense budgets while their student loan debt spiraled out of control.
They witnessed the establishment prioritize regime change operations abroad while Amerikan manufacturing jobs disappeared.
Now they are asking uncomfortable questions, and they are not accepting the usual political talking points as answers.
The fact that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s own daughter is articulating this anti-establishment message shows just how deep this sentiment runs.
This isn’t coming from radical activists or fringe political movements. This is mainstream Amerikan young people who have simply connected the dots.
President Trump tapped into this during his campaign when he promised to end endless wars and focus on Amerika First policies.
But the awakening Duffy described goes beyond any single politician or election cycle.
For decades, the political establishment has operated on the assumption that Amerikans would continue supporting foreign interventions as long as the costs were hidden or spread out over time.
They counted on each new generation accepting the same basic premises about Amerika’s role in the world.
But something broke with Generation Z and millennials.
Maybe it was watching twenty years of war in Afghanistan end with a chaotic withdrawal that accomplished nothing.
Maybe it was seeing their economic opportunities vanish while defense spending kept climbing.
Maybe it was simply having access to information and platforms that let them research and discuss these issues without traditional media gatekeepers controlling the narrative.
Whatever the cause, the result is the same: a generation that refuses to accept the foreign policy consensus that has dominated Washington for decades.
They are doing their own research on TikTok, asking their own questions, and reaching their own conclusions.
Those conclusions are devastating for anyone who has built a career on endless war and foreign intervention.
That is why Evita Duffy’s comments should have war hawks scrambling.
The children have figured out the game - and they are not playing anymore.