Shazam!
Accessing Drudge via duckduck was instant. Still won’t come up via google!
You might try to use https://www.google.com to access it.
Google has secure shell available also.
Now, since that worked, the issue may be more related to filtering of you than that of Drudge.
Yes, I know that sounds like tin foil. But I have that issue here. It is related to my own web activity.