No. A mafia makes you pay “protection” from the things they’ll do to you if you don’t pay. A government makes pay taxes for a very real threat of what other nations and people within your nation will do without that security they provide. They also build roads and bridges and fire departments, water towers and plumbing, and other things necessary for a civilized world.
None of this changes the fact that if you wanted a better candidate you should have campaigned them a year ago, not now.
When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago, when is the next best time? Now.