Even those of us who’ll never “feel the Bern” can admire Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s risky and defiant stand against her party’s machine.

A rising Democratic star — first Samoan-American member of Congress, one of the first female combat veterans to win a House seat — Gabbard just quit as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee so she could endorse Bernie Sanders.

Thereby earning herself a spot high on Hillary Clinton’s enemies list.

Gabbard had been unhappy for months: She was one of the few voices decrying the machinations that limited the party to just six presidential-primary debates — mostly at times designed for low viewership.

Everyone knew party head Debbie Wasserman Schultz was doing Clinton’s work on that front — debates were too likely to boost Hillary’s opponents. Only when Sanders became a threat, prompting Clinton to want more faceoffs, did the party suddenly add four debates — leaving it still one behind the GOP total.

Of course, Clinton now seems back on track to crush the Sanders revolution — with significant help from the party’s vast number of un-democratic “superdelegates.”

So Gabbard has taken a real risk — the more so, as the Army veteran made it plain she backs Sanders in good measure because he’d be a wiser commander-in-chief “so that we don’t continue to find ourselves in these failures that have resulted in chaos in the Middle East and so much loss of life.”

With the likes of Tulsi Gabbard on his side, maybe Bernie’s cause isn’t lost after all.