“For the Republican Party’s committed voting base, the real political enemy is, in fact, the Republican Party,” contends The Dispatch’s David M. Drucker.

And no one “channels that sentiment like [Donald] Trump.”

Polls show GOP primary voters “give their party an abysmal average favorability rating” of less than 65%; some 15% to 20% view it unfavorably.

Per focus groups, “Republican voters hold the GOP responsible for a series of crises in the last 25 years.”

They “feel ‘betrayed’ ” and that their leadership actively dislikes them.

Often, it’s “the mainstream traditionalists on defense in Republican primaries for governor, Congress and other offices.”

And though Trump’s the party’s titular head, the “base still views him as a political outsider who uniquely speaks to the beef they have with their party and Washington.”

Team Biden just “announced the next attack in its never-ending regulatory war on Americans’ home appliances,” roars Carla Sands at the Washington Times: water heaters.

It’s the latest “in a long line of aggressive regulations on gas-powered stoves, dishwashers, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, light bulbs and even cars.”

Nearly every item Americans count on to make their lives more comfortable seems to have been targeted.

We’re facing “fewer, more expensive, and less effective options” — even as Bidenites “downplay” the pain.

They’re pushing a “radical climate agenda through China-style, top-down approaches that snatch away consumer choice.”

Fact is, “a consumer-driven, free-market economic strategy powers competition, innovation, prosperity, and environmental progress.”

That’s in “America’s DNA, and we can embrace it with hot showers, fast dishwashers, and cooking with gas.”

After President Biden “started taking credit for ‘Bidenomics’ and how it’s ‘benefiting’ the country, the United States got a credit rating downgrade,” snarks Ingrid Jacques at USA Today.

Ouch: That “must be awkward”! “It’s only the second time that confidence in the federal government’s ability to manage its debt has been officially reduced.”

“Democrats’ unlimited appetite for spending and their refusal to address growing deficits isn’t sitting well with close watchers of our economy.”

Indeed, the downgrade “indicates that lawmakers didn’t do nearly enough in their negotiations over raising the debt ceiling,” despite “the left’s attempt to dump” all blame on Republicans.

“If there’s an upside to the downgrade, it’s that Americans and our elected representatives may start paying more attention to the problem.”

While “liberal media figures continue to trot out the same tired argument that Republicans are attacking Vice President Kamala Harris because they are racist,” the truth is “she is simply wildly unlikable,” argues Zachary Faria at the Washington Examiner.

And the focus on Harris is warranted: She “is being used as the chief campaigner for Biden’s reelection because Biden is an 80-year-old man who struggles to get through even prepared remarks” and “there are legitimate questions” about whether he’ll make it through another four-year term.

And the fact is, “almost no one likes Harris”; she’s “unliked by independents,” and “even Democrats” don’t want her to be president. “That’s not racism. It’s simply responsible decision-making.”

“Donald Trump is the Republican James Michael Curley,” quips The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn: Curley, a Democrat who served “four nonconsecutive terms as Boston’s mayor,” was “imprisoned in 1947 while Boston’s mayor,” running and winning while “under federal indictment for mail fraud.”

Trump backers recognize “the worst things Mr. Trump has done,” but they also note “a biased investigation into nonexistent Russian collusion” and “two partisan impeachments, one without any hearings.”

Trump haters “wonder why his supporters don’t hate him too. Mostly they tell themselves that his voters are stupid.”

Yet Trump isn’t “looking to the courts to vindicate him.” “If against all odds the 45th president becomes the 47th, he can thank the overreach and condescension of his enemies.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board