TBC both Portland DSA and the campaigns that elected their city council people were lead in major part by members of Reform & Revolution and Bread & Roses, 2 Trotskyist caucuses.
Even when we disagree, the right of DSA has a lot more in common with the left than they do with people like you.
Atlantic is not a Leninist paper to have one singular position on everything. So I can only speak about my own perspective. The point here is lack of a unified national strategy based on the fact that the two wings in the org want fundamentally different things