The chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) released a memo on Election Day evening that asserts the results clearly show Republicans “must become the party of parents.”

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) provided his colleagues on the Study Committee with “four lessons learned from Glenn Youngkin’s victory in Virginia,” the first of which was:

Youngkin’s success reveals that Republicans can and must become the party of parents. There is real energy from parents that we need to understand. The good news is RSC has been working for months to build out an agenda in education that will fight for and empower parents. This will include needed oversight of the Biden administration.

This message was not lost on former Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter, who, as Grabien founder Tom Elliott tweeted, said Wednesday on MSNBC, “The one thing that we need to make sure of is that Republicans in 2022 don’t become is the party of parents.”

“We’re the ones that care about school funding,” she argued, though parents in this election appeared concerned about being declared “domestic terrorists” by leftist educrats as they loudly voiced their concerns about what their children are being taught and about mandates that override what parents believe is best for their children’s health.

Banks offered his Republican colleagues a sample of some ideas of how to advocate for parents:

“Democrats are attacking our schools in new ways, and conservatives must adjust,” Banks wrote. “Glenn Youngkin understood this. He knew parents weren’t just concerned about traditional education issues, but rather viewed education as an extension of the culture war.”