I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Maybe some people are too blinded by their politics to think objectively.
The fact is that, visually speaking, Drudge Report has been the Craigslist of news for almost a quarter of a century. A big reason for its success is that it is easy and familiar to use, which is particularly attractive to its target demographic.
If people don't like the Drudge example, perhaps they might like Antiwar.com. It may look confusing at first, but it's the same format that they've used since their beginning and it works.
Eh, there's https://lite.cnn.com/en/, but it's not well advertised. It's not quite the same deal, it's not a link aggregator and actually has less formatting/images/etc than Drudge, but I think it's getting a similar minimalist aesthetic.
Minimalistic, yes, but I don't think that's exactly what Drudge is doing. Drudge Report is formatted like a newspaper front page, which is an evolved format and one that his readers are already familiar with.
