The drudge model isn’t very complicated, take a news story and put a headline on it that fits a right wing narrative. Most people who look at drudge read the headline and spend less than 30 seconds at the original story when they click it, if they even click it.
Those misleading headlines coupled with tabloid and non credible sources helped build the modern Trump Republicans.
Now drudge and other Republicans media types, pols, operatives, etc are in horror of the monster they built a la Mary Shelly.
There is no basis to the Republican Party as a result. Immigration policies don’t make sense, gun policy is nonexistent, debt and deficits aren’t given a second thought, the failures go in and on and it’s because of the phony headlines and non credible sources of people like Matt Drudge.
So now drudge is appalled at the monster he helped create and the “towns people” are turning on him.