I am not naïve as to the prospects of a third-party candidate getting elected, let alone a radical libertarian.
DeSantis, while originally imposing a lockdown, opened up Florida in September 2020 when most of the rest of the country was still in partial shutdown mode.
You are literally thrown in a cage if you don't pay up.
That is when Ron Paul started his first Republican presidential campaign and managed to convert hundreds of thousands of people towards libertarianism.