Do you truly believe what you just wrote? Or are you really that badly misinformed? Have you been to Florida recently?
DeSantis signed an order that stated that businesses cannot be forced to have a mask mandate --- not that private businesses could not require customers to have a mask? Did you really think he did that?
And poll tax? What are you talking about there?
Stop reading and watching just strongly biased "news" sources.
DeSantis passed signed a bill that significantly restricts private employers abilities to mandate vaccination as a condition of employment...requiring any private employer with a vaccine mandate to provide exemptions so broad as to gut any ability of a private employer to mandate vaccinations. The mandated exemptions include the employee having "health concerns" about the vaccine. So basically, the mandated exemption includes the employee just not wanting to get it.
IMO, he's a strong "states' rights" guy....not a particularly strong "individual rights" guy. He doesn't hesitate to prohibit local and municipal governments from enacting things he disagrees with at the state level.
IMO those types of guys can be just as "authoritarian" as any strong federal government advocates....they just want the authority to be with them instead of the feds.
As for the "poll tax" comment, he's probably talking about SB 7066 and it's affect on recently re-enfranchised convicted felons under Florida citizen's ballot initiative Amendment 4 of 2018. I wouldn't characterize what SB 7066 explicitly a "poll tax", but I can understand why some might. And this comment isn't an indication one way or the other whether I think it's good policy or not.