I did too, but Drudge has been David Brocked, it seems!
I think someone on another site did some digging and found that Matt Drudge had sold the site - or the rights to it - to his father or someone else in his family.
Matt, as you may know, is gay and apparently has checked out in favor of a retirement of sorts with his partner.
Whoever is in charge now is concerned solely with clicks. At one point it was stated that Drudge had dropped all advertising (ostensibly in the name of editorial independence) but I just checked and there are still a few ads there although nothing like the bad old days.
He had a good run predicated mostly on one story that fell into his lap. Impeachment has fizzled despite the attempts to make it sound important, serious, etc.
There is a vacuum now and hopefully someone will fill it - cos Drudge is d-u-n.