I agree that people who talk about the "vision of the Founding Fathers" have a heavily mythologized, basically false idea of what the Founding Fathers were about -- they were bickering politicians with no more of a grand unified vision of what the country should become than Congress has today.

At the same time, though, I disagree with you that "wanting the country to be more like the Founders intended" is an incoherent or meaningless ideal. It is true that there are many ways in which our country is totally different from things *all* of the Founders held as basic baseline assumptions of how things worked and that there is a set of proposals you could make that would, indeed, have the very clear effect of making our country look more like it did in the 1700s. Increasing states' rights would be one of them.

(Note that I of course don't agree with any such proposals, because I think our country changing from the "Founders' vision" is a necessary and proper result of our country being bigger, richer, more complex and more technologically advanced than any country was back then. But that's not to say that what they're talking about is logically incoherent or historically mistaken.)