By Peter Nicholas, Katherine Doyle, Megan Lebowitz and Courtney Kube [Editor’s note: How opponents of democracy plan to sabotage democracy in the name of “democracy”.] WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is sparking fears among those who understand the inner workings of the Pentagon that he would convert the nonpartisan U.S. military into the muscular arm of his political agenda as he makes comments about dictatorship and devalues the checks and balances that underpin the nation’s two-century-old democracy. A circle of appointees independent of Trump’s political operation steered him away from ideas that would have pushed the limits…