Another 2500 of his colleagues feel so stigmatised that they have joined a clandestine support group, according to a Los Angeles Times article profiling retribution and secrecy forced upon "the vast majority of conservatives who work in entertainment".
"In 30 years of show business, I've never seen it like this," an unnamed actor told the outlet. "If you are even lukewarm to Republicans, you are excommunicated from the church of tolerance." Since it premiered several years ago, Allen's show has been hailed as a rare foil to Hollywood politics.
"Finally, we have a hero who hunts, fishes, watches sports, and occasionally drives a tank," the Imaginative Conservative wrote.
But Allen himself has complained of network censorship when his protagonist, an alpha-male family man, tries to go after liberal icons.
Allen admits "he has gotten more than one warning to stop calling President [Barack] Obama a 'communist'," the TV Page reported in 2015.
Allen didn't sound so dire during the Republican primaries, when the Hollywood Reporter asked whether he vented his political views through his character.
"It's getting more and more comfortable," he said. "These guys know me so well that they're writing stuff that is exactly what I would've said. It's a marvellous thing when you have liberal people writing for [a show like this]."
And he sounded lukewarm about the prospect of a Trump presidency.
"Forget the stupid s*** he says about immigrants," Allen said. "That's just ignorant. But he might be able to do the stuff that really needs fixing." After the election, on Fox News, Allen compared Trump to an amateur performer with "very bad comic timing". "I don't want to defend the guy," he said.
But he backed Trump's supporters in his industry.
"What I find odd in Hollywood is they didn't like Trump because he was a bully," Allen told Megyn Kelly.
"But if you had any kind of inkling that you were for Trump, you got bullied for doing that. It gets a little hypocritical."
