What makes bread-and-butter economic issues relatively unappealing for Democrats?

If you start with the assumption that helping the “common” man must be at odds with helping POC, etc then you’ll always arrive back at MAGA. Whenever you see "blue collar " or “common” or "real Americans " you need to preface it with White blue collar to understand who they want to fight for.

An insightful conservative poster here once posted:

They see it as a zero sum game and by definition, minorities are NOT the “common man” they are of course the abberant “other” who must be controlled not helped.