Hillary Clinton is exposing her authoritarian impulses once again.

The twice-failed presidential candidate called for Americans who spread "Russian disinformation" to be jailed.

Clinton made the comments to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, one of the most prolific purveyors of the "Russian collusion" smear.

Hillary demands charges

Clinton was discussing recent indictments of Russian media executives who used American conservative pundits as their unwitting mouthpieces.

The Justice Department never accused the American pundits of wrongdoing, but Clinton suggested there should be civil or even criminal sanctions for those who spread Russian talking points.

“I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases, criminally charged, is something that would be a better deterrence," she said.

Ironically, Clinton and the left have spread plenty of "disinformation" themselves.

They falsely claimed, with no evidence, that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation," relying on a bogus letter signed by former intelligence agents to justify burying the story before the 2020 election.

Of course, Clinton also paid for the bogus opposition research dossier that gave life to the "Russian collusion" slander that misled millions of Americans into believing Donald Trump was a Russian agent.

Clinton's authoritarian impulses

Despite their own prolific deception, the left has repeatedly justified partisan censorship in the name of battling "disinformation," and it looks like Clinton wants to take that censorship to the next level.

“I think we need to uncover all of the connections and make it very clear that you could vote however you want, but we are not going to let adversaries, whether it is Russia, China, Iran, or anybody else, basically try to influence Americans as to how we should vote in picking our leaders,” Clinton said.

Contrary to what Clinton believes, Americans are in fact allowed to spread "misinformation." The government doesn't have a monopoly on truth.

That may seem like a foreign concept to an authoritarian like Clinton, whose mind works more like Vladimir Putin' than she maybe realizes.

Clinton also used her interview to continue to demonize Trump even after he survived a second assassination attempt last weekend, calling him a "danger to our country and the world."

Does violent leftist rhetoric warrant prosecution in Clinton's authoritarian fantasy? We're going to guess the answer is no.

And she calls Trump a dictator.