Steve's barking at progressives? 17 amendment unconstitutional?

I just was looking at u tube. I saw this video from Fox ( I can't believe they call this) News. On it was this ex-judge Napolitano claiming that the 17Th amendment was unconstitutional. (I wish I knew how to upload from another source, this you got to hear).
The reason the honorable Napolitano said it was unconstitutional because it stepped on states rights and our founding fathers  wanted the states to have the last word. What? I must misunderstood what I heard.
States right was what the civil war was fought for, wasn't it?
The history books in NYC when I as a mere lad stated the article of confederation wasn't workable, so our forefathers decided to have a stronger central government, and they brought forth the Constitution. They had to have a consensus, the mostly manufacturing north against the large landholders from the south.
Now this is from the history books that I read in NYC, it seems that our forefathers like the idea of the English system with a house of Lords (the senate) and the house of commons ( congress). They didn't trust all the people all the time so they had the states appoint their senators. Our founding fathers did have the wisdom to put into our Constitution an ability to amend it. Well those damn  progressives decided that they were going to trust the people and have them elect directly the senators. Of cause the states agreed with those damn progressives,  because if they didn't, the amendment wouldn't become part of the Constitution.

Now lets get back to this word progressive that I keep hearing on the sly old fox news network.
I looked up the word Progressive in my Marion Webster dictionary.
One believing in moderate political change.
Social improvement by government action. 

Now call me slow, but I just don't understand how the Honorable Judge Napolitano can call the height of progressive movement just prior to the roaring 20s.
Giving the women the right to vote, He's right that was progressive.
Making alcohol illegal in the Constitution,  that was draconian.
Now I wouldn't call a President that called "The Birth of A Nation" an accurate depiction of history progressive. Nor the same president who payed 3/4 the pay for African American soldiers because he believed that the were 3/4 of a man. (Not exactly social improvement by government).

Are progressives evil  setting up  sewer systems. Having National Parks system. Trying to make sure that the food we eat is safe.  These are some of the progressive things that happened between Roosevelt and Wilson.
I guess it was a terrible progressive era.